McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold National Historic Person
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Place Holder
(© Parks Canada Agency)
Address :
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Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1972-10-19
Life Date:
1819 to 1907
Other Name(s):
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McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold
(Designation Name)
Research Report Number:
1962-036, 1967-001, 2008-CED-SDC-014, 2008-CED-SDC-017, 2012-CED-SDC-009
Importance:
Arctic explorer, commanded 1857-59 final search expedition for Franklin
Plaque(s)
No plaque in place, no recommended location: Unknown, N/A
Leopold McClintock's Arctic career was intimately linked with the Franklin search expeditions. As a young lieutenant he sailed on the first two expeditions (1848 and 1850), and proved to be an intrepid sled-traveller, exploring much of the coast of Somerset Island on the first voyage and Melville Island on the second. In 1857 he commanded what proved to be the last of the search expeditions when Lady Franklin sent him in the FOX to verify reports of Franklin's death which Dr. John Rae had received from the Inuit. In the spring of 1859 McClintock discovered written evidence of the explorer's fate on the shore of King William Island.